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Design for a Glance, a Look and a Read

You can design almost any information with this in mind (even an email for example). Probably not ideal for a novel, but if you’re competing for attention, as most things are, it’s not bad to keep in mind.…

14 Feb 2014

Chindogu: unuseless inventions

Unuseless inventions. Invented by the Japanese. Worth a quick chindogu search.…

14 Feb 2014

Anchoring

Hard to avoid and easy to manipulate.…

12 Feb 2014

How long to nap

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Perfect Nap and @jessmnhey.…

11 Feb 2014

Common distributions: normal, skewed, pareto

Normal (the weight of apples, measurement errors, IQ…), skewed (Number of children in a household, age at retirement…) and Pareto (80/20 rules, long-tails, size of meteorites).…

10 Feb 2014

Metaphors for ideas

Ideas are: Locations Objects Food There are others too. But these are big ones. Curious? Read Metaphors We Live By was a frame-changing easy read for me. PS Accidentally, mixed my metaphors in the final sketch. The Mind Is A Machine metaphor is so pervasive it’s hard to ‘sketch’ across thinking without it.…

9 Feb 2014

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